As it happens, the plan was announced on May sixth -- the same day as the "flash crash" on American stock markets.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

It may have played a part. But this week, officials told Congress they were still investigating the causes of the so-called flash crash.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The stock market crash marked the beginning of the Great Depression -- a long,slow,painful fall to the worst economic crisis in American history.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

The crash also took the lives of the pilot and two other singers -- J.P.Richardson, known as the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Katherine Cole has more. Call it a crash-landing, a ditching, a splash-down, or a nicer name.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

"It all started in 2000 in Kemerovo region, when my friend and his 8-year-old daughter died in a car crash."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

A team has arrived from U.S.-based Boeing Aircraft to assist in efforts to determine the cause of the crash.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

poet and rock singer Jim Carroll; and DJ AM, who survived a fiery 2008 plane crash with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

This will provide crucial clues to what caused the crash - India's worst in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

In Johannesburg, a spokeswoman for the Airports Company South Africa, Unathi Batyashe-Fillis, said the company had no confirmation on what caused the crash.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Jacek Kucharczyk, of the Warsaw-based Institute of Public Affairs, says the crash at Smolensk did more than just change the date of the election.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Grzegorz Makowski of the Warsaw-based Institute of Public Affairs explains this surge of support for Kaczynski, saying he thinks the plane crash at Smolensk mobilized more conservative voters.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

Tragedy also marked the past year in U.S.sports,as 22-year-old Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart died in a car crash April 9, just hours after he threw six scoreless innings against the Oakland A's.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24